"Simply an epiphany."— , starred review Simon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his body. . Facing a lifetime behind bars and subjected to new therapies for sexual reprogramming, Simon finds himself plunged into a terrifying process of self-reconstruction. But how much, in the end, can a man really change? Darkly compelling and deeply moving, is a psychological exploration of one man’s uncertain and often-harrowing journey towards rehabilitation. "Intense, revealing, challenging and above all riveting … I kept saying to myself, how could she know this?”—Erwin James, convicted murderer, author of “Sometimes novelists go too far—and sometimes they manage to demonstrate that too far is the place they needed to go.”— “Her unforgettable prose is moody, shape-shifting, provocative and always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate to walk down...but will.”— Amy Bloom, author of “Marvellously well-crafted … I can't remember the last time I was so compelled, impressed and unsettled by the emotional world of a novel.”— Sarah Waters, author of